Lingo.



I. A. HALL.

LINGO.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 1,1913.

Patented May 26, 1914.

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ATTORNEY.

ISAAC A. HALL, O15 PATER-SON, NEN JERSEY.

LINGO.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented llIay 26, 191%.

Application filed July 1, 1913. Serial No. 776,794.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, IsAAo A. I'IALL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lingoes, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide in a simple and inexpensive construction a lingo for looms which may be readily applied to or removed from its heddle and yet be proof against becoming disengaged therefrom in ordinary use, and which will afford a joint or connection with the heddle that is calculated to produce a certain desired flexibility, especially when the heddle is formed of wire.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 shows the improved lingo in side elevation, suspended from its heddle; Fig. 2 is a fragmentary View like Fig. l but on a larger scale; Fig. 3 is a side elevation on the same scale as Fig. 2, the parts being turned 90 from the position shown in said figure; and, Figs. 4 and 5 illustrate theoinvention where the heddle is formed of wire or the like,

' Fig. 4 showing the parts in normal position and Fig. 5 showing their relation during the operation of connecting or separating them.

In the drawing, a is a heddle having its lower end formed as a loop Z) in the usual way.

The lingo 0, preferably formed in the usual manner of heavy wire, has a flattened upper or supporting end-portion (Z. In said endportion is an eyelet e that is preferably circular in general contour. Leading to this eyelet is an entrance passage f which, at least where it joins the eyelet, is formed narrower than the same. In the preferred construction the passage f enters from one side of the flattened end-portion (Z of the lingo and joins the eyelet next tothe opposite side of the lingo, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, a and 5; it is further angular in form.

The upper or supporting end of the lingo thus constitutes a hook which is adapted to receive the loop I) of the heddle and adapts the parts a and c to be separately connected together. The described ofiset relation of the passage f to the eyelet e where the former joins the latter has for its efiect, when the parts are connected and are in operative position as a portion of the harness of the loom, to oppose automatic separation thereof in consequence of their movement which, as is well known, in other lingoes of the hook type, frequently results in unshipping of the lingo from its heddle. This result (opposmg, in the way described, the automatic separation of the parts) is of course best assured where the heddle is formed of stiff material, as wire.

7 Where the heddle is formed of two pieces of wire soldered or otherwise secured together side by side, as indicated at b, b in Fig. 2, or otherwise, so that it has a substantially flattened form as seen in cross section, the width of its lingo-supporting portion being greater horizontally than vertically (Figs. 4 and 5), the passage 7", at least where it adjoins the eyelet, is of greater width than the vertical dimension of said supporting portion of the heddle but less width than the horizontal dimension thereof. Thus, regardless of the size of the loop of the heddle, before the parts can be separated or operatively connected they must be arranged as shown in Fig. 5, that is, turned one relatively to the other so that said supporting portion of the heddle may pass through the passage f edgewise.

It will be understood that the angular formation of the passage f, and the fact that it enters from one side of the lingo and joints the eyelet next to the opposite side of the lingo assists in discouraging the automatic separation of the parts, which would not result if the passage entered the lingo at the same side thereof as it does the eyelet and were more or less straight. Due to the circular formation of the eyelet the joint between the parts has considerable flexibility. This, especially when the heddle is formed of stiif material, is found highly advantageous in order to reduce to the minimum the swaying of the heddle.

The improved lingo may be formed at a single operation'of a die which, at the same time that it gives the lingo the peculiar hook shape described, flattens it.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A lingo having its supporting end provided with a heddle receiving eyelet, and with an entrance passage extending from one side of the lingo first crosswise thereof and then longitudinally thereof and upwardly to the eyelet and formed where it joins the eyelet narrower than the same, said passage joining the eyelet in laterally oifset relation thereto, substantially as described.

2. A lingo having its supporting end provided with a heddle receiving eyelet, and with an angular entrance passage leading upwardly to the eyelet and formed where it joins the eyelet narrower than the same, said passage entering from one side or" the lingo and joining the eyelet next to the opposite side of the lingo, substantially as described.

3. In combination, with the heddle formed of stiff material and including a loop whereby to couple the heddle with a suspended lingo, a lingo having its upper end provided with a heddle-loop receiving substantially circular eyelet and with an entrance leading to the eyelet and formed where it joins the eyelet narrower than the same, substantially as described.

4:. In combination, with a lingo having its supporting end provided with a heddleloop-receiving eyelet and with an entrance passage leading to the eyelet and formed where it joins the eyelet narrower than the same, a heddle having a flattened lingo-supporting portion extending through the eyelet and having its vertical thickness less, and its horizontal thickness greater, than the width of said passage where it joins the eyelet, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

I SAAG A. HALL.

\Vitnesses JOHN W. STEWARD, 2.1. D. BELL.

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Washington, D. C. 

